A review by sharonfalduto
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox by Cristina García

YA book about a mixed ethnicity girl--Cuban, Japanese, Jewish--who has to come to terms with the death of her beloved grandfather. She asks him to tell her his life story. I had a difficult time relating to this character; she and I have almost nothing in common, which I suppose is the point of reading, but it felt to me as if the author were trying too hard to make the character "cool" with her surfing, her dad being in band, and her plan to save the school's orchestra by putting on a punk rock orchestra concert.